Reviews (page 13 of 14)
Meh
Je me suis infligé cette écoute mais au secours !! Je crois que mes oreilles ont saigné et je n'ai en rien saisi la beauté de cet album
Dross
Nunca entendí que le ven a esta banda de re mierda, inescuchable, prefiero empalarme antes que volver a escuchar esta garchita
1 trop hard rock que j'aime pas
Just could not make myself like this. Too screamy.
all the songs sound the same
not my style
I’ve heard a lot about NIИ, but I’ve never actually listened to them, let alone their albums. Honestly, it’s just trash. It’s unlistenable, it’s literally torture for the ears that gives you a headache. It’s as if Depeche Mode started doing butyrate. Once again, I’m convinced that when a band claims to have a multi-instrumentalist, the music is always awful.
Main objects of my nightmares: - The pigs winning tonight - Getting penetrated by a nine-inch……nail
As a non-native, it's really hard for me to keep track of the lyrics. Also the vocal is unnecessarily shouting? Like, it is nice experimental stuff for 1994 but why it is in this 1001 website is way beyond me.
Urgh
Too angry
This album is for a certain public, sadly it was not for me.
No. Imposible. Definitivamente no es para mí, le diría a Netflix. Yo sé que tienen cosas que en perspectiva están buenas, pero lo sufrí.
Yeah I don’t think I’m gonna make it thru this one. Chalk it up. Just not me.
Not my sort of thing
I had not heard this previously and happy to say it exceeded my expectations by proving to be not quite the very worst among the unlistenable albums we have been subjected to so far - one star. Tom.
2 - TERRIBLE
This was a bit moody for my taste. Does someone need a hug?
Not For Me 1 Just Noise
Muy malo no entiendo como pueden poner esto entre los álbumes que hay que escuchar antes de morir. 1/10
noise. just noise. creo que conocía closer. Pero no pude terminar el album.
Aggressively not my cup of tea.
Horrible awful lyrics. I feel sorry for people who relate to this.
queeeee, solo conozco un tema y todo el álbum habla de lo mismo (sexo) pero se fueron al joraca con el hard metal que onda
Couldnt even finish the first song
Don’t know how people liked this, this was honestly one of the worst things I’ve heard on this list.
As a high school senior, I remember seeing an underclassmen girl with the lyrics to Closer written on her backpack in pink puffy paint. It was official -- alternative music was now the mainstream. This was my first time listening to this album. I almost didn't make it through the first song. But I persevered. After all, this is a critically acclaimed album beloved by millions... right? After finishing, I openly admit I don't get it. Is there something there mixed in with all the white noise and screaming that I just don't understand? I'm certainly open to that possibility. I could hear some interesting things in some of the chords used in some places -- Trent Reznor clearly understands the nuts and bolts of music. But I just couldn't find anything on here that sticks with me -- A Warm Place... yeah that was kinda cool... how does it go again? I understand that this is supposed to be a concept album of an individual's downward spiral toward suicide. But I just found the lyrics dark and REALLY repetitive. If this album did anything to help change attitudes toward depression and mental health, then I applaud it. But musically I just couldn't find anything here. I'm going to go listen to some Radiohead.
Muy pesado, escuche 2/3 temas y no pude entrar. No es mi onda
Jeg er med på at det er konceptalbum med et kunstnerisk budskab, men der var simpelthen ikke et eneste øjeblik, hvor jeg bare tilnærmelsesvis nød noget som helst af det. Ikke et eneste sekund. Jeg har nok faktisk haft præcis den oplevelse, som var intentionen, så måske den burde have fået en 5'er.
Ulideligt at høre på det her i mere end 10 minutter
:) qué es eso al final de la primera canción. la verdad ni le presté atención
once i was driving some friends around and playing Nina Simone (Feeling Good) in my car. We got out and my friend said "i listen to artists who can actually sing." i replied, "ethan, you listen to fucking nine inch nails." this is the fastest i have ever invoked The Rule. one track in and i want to vomit; no way am i listening to 1hr5 of this shit.
lwk ass
Ass
⭐ Det är mörkt, deppigt och skevt. Har aldrig lyssnat aktivt på NIN, bara hört någon låt och hade på känn ungefär vad det handlade om. Var tveksam till om det skulle skulle vara något för mig och det visade sig att det är det inte heller. Det finns säkert kvaliteér här men det är för skevt och krävande för mig både musikaliskt och textmässigt, det bästa med NIN är loggan. Bäst A warm place (för att den ger lite lugn i allt ljud) och Hurt men vet inte ens om jag gillar denna versionen, gillar dock covern av Johnny Cash mycket. Det finns låtskrivarkvaliteér hos Trent Reznor men han gömmer det väl under produktionen.
Well I hate metal, just noise to my ears..
When you can't hear how lame the lyrics are and the noise takes over, it's better, but not by much. 'I wanna fuk you like an animal' yawn...'I drink the honey in your hive', hilarious, enough to bring you out in hives. 'Music' for 14 year olds with acne and a bit of gristle around the mush, thinking that raging hormones have real meaning to their existence. You grow out of it, well some do anyway.
Never have liked thrash and this has not converted me!
Un album troppo distante dai miei gusti musicali, qualche canzone mi ha gasato mentre pedalavo ma per il resto non riuscirei ad ascoltarlo.
muy ruidoso
- The Downward Spiral - Piggy - Hurt
Not for me
Not as nother growly, shouty thing. Not for me
no es mi estilo :/
Ugh. Completely unlistenable. Skip skip skip. I mean really. Couldn’t even last through the cover of Hurt. I was never NIN’s target audience I guess. Off to cleanse my soul with some Lizzo.
not my vibe
3/10 So loud, not my thing
Another DNF. I don’t understand the hype around NIN, it sounds all over the place and the vocals are too quiet in comparison to instruments.
17/03/25 o que quer que essa merda seja, eu não gosto pra mim é um dos álbuns mais superestimados da existência essa primeira música parece um poop com esse instrumental alto e a voz inaudível o final igualmente grande bosta isso ser a vibe deles nossa como eles são diferentões e fazem críticas sociais de forma mega inteligente nossa como eles se fato não se importam com nada, como são inteligentes piggy começou bem, chato mas um pouco menos foi um pouco menos chata do que eu esperava o vocal também é uma bosta, a galera tava era carente por uma vozinha baixa no ouvido o que aconteceu com a voz dele em heresy? conseguiriam piorar o que já era ruim agora ele decidiu berrar também, e o niilismo mega inteligente voltou march of the pigs acertaram no instrumental, parecia de videogame, daí o mano abriu a boca e voltou a bosta de sempre ainda bem que essa n tem letra, porque não dá pra ouvir o que ele canta mesmo, o nillismo e crítica social diferentão fica meio escondido closer é inesperadamente bem feito??? no instrumental obviamente, pq a letra é adolescente (niilista, claro) com tesão agressivo se alongou muito esse instrumental no meio já, quando eu finalmente acho algo decente aqui dentro ele se piora ruiner começa igual closer, instrumental decente e vão cagando com voz e etc um solo de guitarra distorcido bem broxa esses synths parecem intro de reportagem do fantástico kkkkkk the becoming é a pior de todas, esse instrumental é horroroso e até a voz consegue ser melhor esse solo de máquina quebrada é tão ruim que chega a ser engraçado para piorar essa bosta de projeto é imensa, tanto em duração individual de faixas quanto em todas as faixas I do not want this me define ouvindo o álbum, porque parece tortura essa poluição sonora do caralho big man with a gun é curta, finalmente algo ruim curto warm place decente, só de ser curto já me agrada, o contraste é até interessante eraser até que complementa esse contraste, acho que por não ter vocal na sua maior parte ela fica boa só pelo instrumental - só no final ela volta a merda que o álbum é esse álbum não acaba. o que caralhos esse álbum ainda tem para oferecer com todo o respeito, todas as músicas são praticamente iguais reptile tem esse som de tiro de textura que fica irritante por ser perceptível - e essa duração atrapalha tudo a self titled tem esse ar de antecipação, e finalmente algo tem impacto de acontecimento narrativo dentro dessa sonoridade tensa ela constrói algo pra hurt, mas a essa altura eu já fui lobotomizado - o que é minimamente bom na questão projeto narrativo fica oculto a versão do johnny cash ficou bem melhor também embora hurt seja boa aqui (talvez a melhor junto de closer e warm place), é uma joia oculta no meio de tanta bosta repetitiva - e esse é o problema desse álbum tudo nele é uma gritaria constante, sonora e temática, e as duas últimas faixas tentam trazer uma narrativa que não funciona por não ter sido desenvolvida e isso me leva ao segundo ponto, que é tentarem achar uma temática para isso (como abuso de substâncias) certamente não existe uma temática, é só alguns ouvintes que se acham diferentões dos outros tentando achar profundidade onde não tem, principalmente pela identificação com a temática niilista vergonhosa de tão rasa 2/10 (porque se tivesse como eu daria 1)
No
I was a teenager in the 90s. I hated NIN then. 30 years later - I still hate NIN. This noise ruined my day.
Just no
That was painful
This album is raw, depressing and relentless. I can see why it's in this list but it's not for me.
cringe
Tad bit too heretical
Distorted emo murmuring =music? 🤔
I know this band was (is?) really popular, but to be honest listening to this album filled me with the desire to go out and yell at kids to get off my lawn and, a) There were no kids out front and b) I don’t have a lawn. I’m old and listened to punk if I needed angsty music, not this. It's just not my jam.
quelques rares moment , dont Hurt, qu’est sympa sous cette forme 1.5+/5
Not a fan of the screaming.
Straight poop. Fuck this album
Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the hamburger helper mascot haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane Imao
Noise and evil
Absolute abysmal noise. The only track I liked was the one they didn't shout/groan/swear/sing on! Can we just stop with the rock now!
Not my vibe
It sounds so horrible yet its mastered so well. I don't like the lyrics or the instruments used, its like putting a cheese grater up to my ears.
Noise
Too exhausting for me. Experimenten and noisy.
Chaos and distortion reigns. There may be art and skill here, but I am not appreciating it. The track “I Do Not Want This” accurately summarizes up my experience.
A couple songs were just barely listenable, but skipped a lot. The discordance was too much to bear.
UMMMM no.
Genuinely difficult and unpleasant listen
I did not listen to much of the album because the lyrics of the songs I did hear made me feel anxious.
Never really explored Nine Inch Nails before. Was aware of them(him? Is it just Trent Reznor?) and probably know some of the well known songs, but otherwise not really so this will be an interesting listen. This isn’t my favorite sound. Maybe 12 year old me in 2001 would’ve found this more interesting? It sounds like the music playing at a seedy club where bad guys are about to get shot by the anti hero in a 90s action movie. I don’t think I’m personally angry enough right now to even remotely enjoy this. It’s giving me anxiety. When I got to Closer I realized hey I know this one. So far it’s the only thing I’ve somewhat enjoyed on the album. But still, this guy jeez he’s angry. I listen to my albums in the morning and this is too much. Taking a break. Everytime I get to something that sounds interesting and I think I’m going to like, I just end up not liking what comes next. This is probably going to be a 1, unless something near the end changes my mind. I got to the song title I Do Not Want This and I couldn’t agree more. Overall, I understand some of the talent involved and he’s clearly great at putting together this sound by himself, but it’s not for me. It’s angst and stuck in a specific time that I’m mentally now where near right now. There’s nothing here I would choose to listen to on my own again. Maybe there’s a few songs that are okay, but still it’s overall just not for me and a drag to listen to for me. Overall a 1/5, but I’m sure there’s people who love this.
No thank you
i hated absolutely this album, its too rocky for my taste, i now have a migrane and my ears are belleding. Like these may be good musicionas but not for me
Meh
Very not my kind of music, I found it hard to get over that hurdle, and hard to see any sort of appeal to be honest.
Uhhhh dat eerste lied 😭😭😭 Herrie much…. Ohhh alleen closer ken ik wel van TikTok lol maar idk of het echt een goed lied is….. beetje toxic maar wel een goede beat opzich. Nee niet mn ding dit hele album, 2 sterren is nog aardig
Noisy and repetitive. The music grates on your ears and the vocals are annoying. Moving on. Best song: Closer
meh one star for hurt - johnny cash
ikke noe for meg dessverre
cant listen to this it sounds like a factory where all the machines needs to be greased and everyone needs a pay rise
Not for me. 2/10
This was not for me
Really Bad
No
an album of slightly grating noise which didn't feel particularly musical to me. Not my genre whatsoever
Way too metal for me
Too metal for me but I did really like piggy, didn’t realize they were very evil. I really do like the singers voice tho
I knew the band name but was surprised to hear the music to go with it - I really didn’t expect this. 100% did not like!
Never a huge fan, only know the radio hits. Damn that was a struggle to get through.
Not that great. Too much rock and gave me anxiety
nothing special except the name of the band
nah
I will never really understand the appeal of this album as much of it just sounds like noise to me. Best song: "A Warm Place" as it was noticeably different than the rest of the album and I also liked, "Hurt", but the rest of the album was something I won't choose to listen to again. Worst songs: the rest of the album excluding the two songs mentioned previously.
Not for me
No thanks
Nope
This is sub Depeche mode stuff and even that was not of the highest order. Woe is me plinky plinky gubbins. Even their best songs hurt is performed better elsewhere.
couldn't finish
Weird
Pretty mid. Closer
I'd never heard of Industrial Rock before and I won't be disappointed if I don't hear of it again. I'm not sure of how it's defined unless it's just making as much distorted noise as possible. A Warm Place was the only refuge, but that take a lot of listening to noise to reach it.
“Alternative”… try screaming in your face the entire time
Awful too noisy and angry, depressing
Nah I fucking hated this. I genuinely wouldn’t wish this listening experience on my worst enemy
Very experimental noisy listen. ‘Closer’ was of course a stand out. Always a banger. But nothing I would revisit
Overplayed
äÄÄh
Nope
I am not angry enough to give this a good listen, but I actually didn't totally hate everything. ⭐ Didn't like it.
I've been putting this off out of dread. I was right. This screamy noise was never going to be for me. I do not want this. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
Noise, for the most part.
Nope, hate it
edgy tenåringsemo
i can't listen to it
Ei yhtään omaan makuun, melkeinpä karseeta kauttaaltaan
I’ll come out the gate saying, I have never, NEVER been a fan of Nine Inch Nails. And I gotta say… I still hate NIN. Seriously, WTF is this? I get the whole experimental thing, but how did they get as popular as they did? Experimental groups like this are usually extremely niche.
Fuck me, that was fucking horrible. I gave it a go but I cannot stand anything this heavy. Does that make me a pussy? Maybe. Do I care? No.
No no no. Whoever made this needs to have his cocain confiscated
Had Nirvana vibes with the screaming. It wasn't terrible
Did not like this
dude calm down
This was horrendous. It's got the cringe factor of Limp Bizkit, but without any humour or decent riffs. How Johnny Cash was able to turn Hurt into what it is has to be a miracle.
Desperately boring.
My goodness, what a horrific album. It seemed to never end. It very much is a product of its time. The industrial sounds just cannot interest me at all. Very easy to rate this album. 1/5
ABORT ABORT
not a fan of rock so def not my fav
I will preface my notes on this album with the fact that I am a millennial and when I was younger I was totally into the emo bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, etc....I never got into Nine Inch Snails and apparently I still cannot. I tried very hard to get through this album, but I found it to be a little too dark and honestly VERY creepy. It's just not my cup of tea. On to the next one.
Sinnloses Rumgebrülle! Sondermüll!
Really really not my cup of tea.
Хуита
Not my kind of music. He has an ok voice, but the lyrics are brutal. This music makes me thankful that I'm not lonely.
Don’t want to hear this
Terminator porn music
angsty and downright concerning lyrics Tracks to Track: Hurt
In den 90er hätte mich das sicher abgeholt. Heut ist es schwierig Künstler und Kunst zu trennen.
Couldnt listen
Trop violent pour mes oreilles
awful, cant get through this one
not my cup of tea
Well now that was horrible.
I can see it's merits - problem is I listen to my 1 album per day while working and this isn't great background music
No
Pas mon style dutt
🏭🤘🎸
Hard rock is not my genre but some songs were okay Highlights: - Piggy - Closer - Hurt
Just really not for me.
Ngl I hated this. It’s super noisy and the lyrics are pure cringe
A little intense for a 7:30am listen. Will return later
Men va är det här för Emocore-industri? Saknar den chockverkan och den provoaktiva form av antimusik som industri lutar sig mot och så värst mycket känslor är det inte heller, mest nån form av "american angst" som bara är enerverande. För mig blir det här bara nån gapig hårdrocksvariant som jag då inte förstår mig på för fem öre, kanske är det bra i sin genre, jag vet inte...? Lyssnade lite på debuten (Pretty hate machine) också som verkade lite syntigare, den hade fler poänger i mina öron. Ledsen jag måste damma av ettan ... igen Lyssna hellre på Lädernunnan - Slow death EP, Trobbing Gristle - 20 jazz funk greats, Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Har inget att säga om detta. Det här är inte min grej bara.
Rakt igenom urtråkigt och meningslöst 🥱Att Cash gjorde en magisk cover på Hurt hjälper inte. Visar snarare NINs uselhet.
I'm not angry enough for this. 1
Il est 1:55 du matin , je reviens d'une journée Goudes + ciné et je me dis tiens vasy je vais m'écouter l'album du jour en me badigeonnant de crème pour le corp Hurt : oui je commence par la dernière chanson de l'album et da fuck au début j'ai cru que mon casque été cassé... mais non c'est genre expérimental ? 105m d'écoutes quand meme... les 3 premiers tracks sont à chier closer : c'est quoi cette instru goofy ? c'est quand meme le son le plus écouté de l'album...i just can't... le paroles sont crad on dirait une chanson à mettre en arrière plan to fuck yk... bon je skip l'album ça m'a deja saoulé
DNF. I don’t know much, but I do know this is not for me. It really just felt like noise.
Lots of thumping and mean angry sounds
Not really
Wat een beroerde intro zeg. Lijkt wel hardcore, maar dan slecht. Nee dat eerste nummer is hm niet voor mij. Probeer ook nog te werken gvd. Wat een herrie zeg. Irritatie niveau is hoog. En dat op de vrijdagmiddag. Je hoopt te kunnen zeggen, oh het wordt beter. Maar nee, het blijft grafherrie. Nog 7 nummers te gaan. Verdomme zeg, komt ook geen eind aan. Wel een toepasselijke titel, I DO NOT WANT THIS. Downward Spiral is wel oke nog. Nee nvm, komt weer gebler doorheen. Alsof ze wisten dat ik iets positiefs ging zeggen. Nog 1 nummer te gaan. GODZIJDANK. Dit worden 2 1 sterren op 1 dag. Een unicum! Nou oke, Hurt was prima. Maar helpt niet mee dat de Cash versie 300* beter is. 1 ster. Nooit weer. Daaaaag.
Not for me at all 💩
Pff. No me gusta nada. Sobrevaloradisimo. Puede que fuera innovador o original pero esq no le pillo el funny. Es musica horny y ya. Todas las canciones tienen algo que la joden, como la guitarra glitcheada de hurt o los gritos random y soniditos del resto del album. Se salva "A warm place", cancion atmosferica, muy diferente al concepto del disco y justo la siguiente "The eraser", la cual pierde puntos por la intro. En conjunto solo destaca que es musica bastante aurática en mi opinion. La vida se siente sigma mientras escuchas con los casquets por la calle. Enfin, 3/10
No entiendo pq la gente escucha este álbum, quizás es porque no estoy acostumbrada a este tipo de música, pero no me atrae ningún aspecto de este álbum, ni las letras, ni los ritmos ni la parte instrumental. Quizás no es mi vibra y ya pero no me gustó nada. Lo único q la canción esa d Closer es buena para edits supongo.
It’s literally just noise, but not the good kind. I’m way overwhelmed, i wanna tear my ears off my head it’s just way too much. But I didn’t cheat and I listened to most of it I couldn’t take it anymore , I rate a 1/10 and that’s generous.
Hemskt dåligt. Lyssnade inte mer än två låtar.
Wemmer rechtig hässig esch fendet mers velecht no okay. För mech esches aber vel z vel rage woni ned wörk fühle. Es hed höchstens Asätz vo dem woni als Musig wörd bezeichne.
Closer obviously is good. The rest is not for me (or is bad). NiN is a band I just don't get the appeal of. Hurt is better by Johnny Cash. Pretty hard to listen to this album for me. NiN I think is a band I will just never like.
I don't remember it, no offense
I guess the reason I had to listen to this is so as to understand just how much musical tastes can vary... An interesting lesson. I know this album has a generally high rating and many glowing reviews, but I can't find a single positive thing to say about it. OK, the singer's voice is not bad, but totally wasted on this dire excuse for a record.
Nine inch nails... On a chalk board. Very much disliked the sound of this album and it didn't stir any emotional response from me other than boredom and a mild anxiety. Music for angsty American teenagers with a preoccupation with "pigs" and their non-existent girlfriends.
immediately no, wish no stars was possible
the sound of a self-pitying junkie mistaking his self-hate for profundity and encoding it into heavily compressed techno metal to serve as a bible for all the other self-pitying junkies of the world to validate their addictions as a path to faux-profundity. musically and lyrically this is mediocre at best. The fact that it was so influential is a mark against the culture. People are shitty, and this album is their soundtrack. and he did really build it to be so lyrically abstract- all adjectives, no referents... that anyone could insert the details of their garbage lives and think that he's referring to them. God I hate this fucking record.
Honestly, I was very disappointed when I listened to this album. I know the name Nine Inch Nails from Hurt, which I listened from Johnny Cash for the first time. For this reason, I had high expectations for this album. Honestly, it sounds like a collection of noises and melodic vocal lines that sound like moans. Not even the original version of Hurt at the end of the album pleased me. Today it is 1 star.
Immediately after this album, it auto-played to a NIN song I actually ended up really liking, so, like, it's possible, but overall these were, to me, mostly toilet noises, plus a bad Johnny Cash cover (yes, I *know*).
What activity is this music for listening to?
Echt, fuck Nine Inch Nails. We get it, je bent boos. 0.0
no
Nope
hani mer wök ned chönne geh weder. schlimmer als Metallica wöri sogar sege
The cover of hurt was awful
Trent sounds a little sad and angry. One star for Hurt, which Johnny Cash somehow made into a classic.
Refused to listen.
Loved it so many pretty outros nude was my favorite and when I really locked in with this album
It sounds like a movie scene when kids accidentally walk into a scary club and they play what adults saw as devil music
Toch wat te heftige muziek, niet helemaal de vibe
I'm noisy but not too much. I scream, but I also whisper. I'm angry with the system but I work for multinationals. I'm a moron.
nicht so meins, eher lärmorientiert.
very noisy, I couldn't enjoy practically anything from this album.
Insane screaming, weird music equals trash.
Punk/Rock, 1994 -> 1
Hard work. Driving industrial noise like a train which was impressive but tedious after a while. What kind of world dies this person inhabit? Awful for them and unlikeable for me
Closer was good. Didn’t enjoy anything else.
this shit is ass
Nope. Can't. Didn't.
That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more.
Nah. I think after Pretty Hate Machine and the Broken EP, there wasn’t really anywhere else to go with the NIN brand of industrial music. Too same-y and there’s nothing that truly stands out the way PHM and Broken did. Truly the beginning of the downward spiral of NIN.
So angry. Unlistenable. I hated it in the 90s when I was a teenager and I still hate it today. "A Warm Place" is the only thing approaching a "good song". That includes Closer and Hurt. Dated worse than disco.
Didn't like at all!
Downward Spiral describes this album perfectly 3 tracks in and I had to turn it off, what a load of anger fuelled crap I'm sure I couldve coped not listening to it before I died lol have instructed Spotify never to assault me earholes with this again
Sucks dick, not my style and hard to listen to.
I was so unengaged with this that I started checking my work email, and it is a Saturday. Distortion and bellowed, puerile, lyrics are a poor substitute for musical talent. I've wasted enough time on this twaddle. 1/5.
This one got served to me after my newborn kept me up most of the night. So, bad luck.
awful
Definitely not my kind of music. I feel like an old man listening to music like this and want to say that it just sounds like “noise”
I skipped extra quick through this album just in case I happen to die in the middle. I didn’t want this to be the last thing I heard.
1. deztruct - 1.5 2. piggy - 1 3. herezy - 1.5 4. march - 1.5 5. clozer - 2 6. ruiner - 1 7. becoming - 1 8. uuant - 1.5 9. gun - 0 10. place - 1.5 11. erazer - 1.5 12. reptile -1 13. zpiral - 1 14. hurt - 1.5
Do not like nin
The worst yet?
Quite possibly the most deranged album I’ve ever listened to. This album was made by a man for men for sure. This is peak male manipulator music. Gave me the ick. Had me laughing and horrified. I will say it had a lasting impression. I’m scared.
Boring
Objectively pretty interesting and I think groundbreaking in some respects, but really not my thing lyrically or musically. 2/10
There was maybe 2 songs i would call music. "HURT" which is a cover anyways and "Closer". Other than thatbits just street noise with Lyrics you can hardly hear. Don't need to hear this again
hate it
Not for me. Some of the atmospheric stuff works at times, but mostly it's just too sonically ugly.
Nope
So this is industrial rock. They actually sample table saw sounds (“I Do Not Want This”) Questions that entered my mind when listening: Who listens to this shit? Is this guy gay? (see lyrics to “Ruiner”, one of the better songs actually) Is this music? What are these lyrics breh? (interesting… lyrics in “Closer” -also one of the better songs, Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach vibes) Did this guy listen to Deftones, or did Deftones listen to this guy? (Shoutout Chino) I don’t hate all of it, but the singer is so winy, and the music is so discordant and harsh, if they put an audio clip of forks scraping a plate in one of the songs, it would fit right in. I at least don’t hate some of the non-grating moments, though, “Reptile” didn’t make my ears bleed, I may even have enjoyed a song or two (“A Warm Place”, “Eraser” -minus the last minute). Not my genre though. Johnny Cash didn’t write “Hurt”?! I actually like the NIN original better. Also it was in Rick and Morty. Best song on the album. (I’m so glad this album is over)
Hasn't aged well and it gave me a headache
This is absolutely awful. I’m sure many people enjoy this, but then there are also people who slam their genitals in doors for kicks. Each to their own.
"Now here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails?" - Homer Simpson If hating this makes me uncool, then consider me a big ol' square.
When I am grateful for pauses of silence, that tells me this isn’t my genre. It felt like Nine inch Nails on a Chalkboard 😫
la misoginia de closer me hizo quitar el álbum, y en general el tono edgy de las letras es más para un adolescente de 13 años con el cerebro consumido por la porn*grafía y la violencia que para mí. otra nueva adquisición para la lista de álbumes que no envejecieron bien y que sin importar que tan modernos fueron en su época, es en esa época en la que deberían quedarse y no en el presente.
There is a reason that the US military use Nine Inch Nails music as a form of torture in places Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Because its unbearable.
Only got through about half of this — hated every minute of it. Just awful.
I suspect there will be a lot of 1s and 5s for this. Either love it or hate it. So many of the songs sound like they would be in a horror film. It had me thinking “you okay, man? You seem pretty angry”
Other than the 2 songs I've heard before, avoid at all costs! Would never listen to again.
Scheiss Industrial mit pornografischen Texten
Reading the wiki on this album is far more enjoyable than actually listening to it.
absolutely diabolical
Whiny and annoying. The only good thing to come out of this album is Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.
Just awful. Made me consider - do I really want to waste my time when there are so many bad albums in the 1001. This is offensive on so many levels. Couldn’t listen to whole songs. Still got a headache. I miss what anyone sees in this. Just awful!
Bad rock, not hard rock
If I ever here any song from this album, that isn't Hurt (and hopefully then it's the Johnny cash version), it's an instant skip. Industrial rock is just ear torture.
Unlistenable. I liked Closer at the time but it's the only song I could listen to on this. I like Reznor's soundtrack work though.
I've always said noone can bollox up a truly great song. The Bad News cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, Rolf Harris's cover of Stairway to Heaven are examples of this. And the cover of Hurt tht we have here, although it is definitely not the Nine Inch Nails version that I know it is still ok. But even that is not good enough to drag this heap of shit out of the mire. 1 because Hurt stopped it from being lower.
Has to be the worst one so far. Absolutely horrible, and I now feel vindicated for all the times I thought my classmates were shallow or lame for liking 9IN
DNF
About 20 seconds after the start of the first track there was a very loud voice inside my head screaming "Make it stop". I didn't give into that voice immediately but by the third track I could no longer ignore it. So I listened to A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile in order to preserve my sanity..
I hate this so much. I would pay money to never hear this again.
Not my groove
I didn't really get it. The jarring noises ended up feeling so frequent that the music faded into the background - I found this utterly anonymous.
Non stop screaming. Horrible music
I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily listen to this album
This shit is ass. And it’s a shame Trents work on the social network soundtrack is my favorite work of all time. It’s not that it’s going over my head either. I totally get it. the experimentation is pretty cool but it gets drowned out by nonsense. And his vocals are trash. For some reason I keep thinking of Oakley sunglasses and Nissan Z3s. It’s so damn try-hard, I’m gonna have to try hard to listen to the rest of it. Keep feeling like I’m watching an episode of CSI. I gotta turn this shit on next time I’m hacking a computer. Something something this album sent me down a downward spiral.
Didn't care for this one at all. Don't get the appeal either
Pain in the ears
Note my music. Lot of noise, lot of sounds, but not melodious.
Many people regard Nine Inch Nails pioneers in their area and hold them very highly, so I went in with quite high expectations. I was thoroughly disappointed. I listen to quite a lot of techno, and that genre usually get comments about being monotone and just "noise", so it's funny that I should have the exact same feeling about this album. I think the melodies are not interesting enough and lacking in general. Almost everything is just distorted way too much for the sake of it (at least that's how it feels). Extremely edgy in general. 'Close' has a cool beat, but the lyrics are just weird. I prefer Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' many times over this original with it's dissonant quirks. Might be heresy, but going to have to give this a strong 1 since I feel that it is borderline hard to listen to sometimes. I think it's a matter of taste though, NiN are obviously praised by many but this wasn't an album for me.
Too much anger, dissonance and frankly, NOISE. I miss musicianship in music…especially during the 90s.
Industrial rock is a genre I just cannot stand. I do like loud rock music but also like it to be melodic and easily able to distinguish the different instruments and voices making the tune. This is just a cacophony of random noise. I’d rather have a 9 inch nail through my skull than listen to this again. 1/5 6/5/24
If you listened to this as a teenager when it came out, you probably thought you were the edgiest kid on the block. I was 19 or 20, so I was over that phase, so I never listened to NIN. This album is noisy, abrasive, annoying, but also boring and repetitive. I hate the drum machine and the whole industrial sound. I didn't like any of it - not for me.
1.5/5 This album contains a lot of, let’s call it “noise”. I don’t mind a little bit, but on this one it’s too much and disturbing. It was hard for me to get through this album. The only positive thing about this one is Hurt. Just so Johnny Cash could cover it.
Would rather nail my balls to a plank than finish this album.
Not for me
Techno, heavy metal. Oof, this is not for me. I really dislike music that is designed to make me feel like I'm in a drug spiral.
If you’re could have given Zero stars, I would have…nails on a chalkboard!!
Terrible. Just awful. Bravely plumbing new depths of what it means to be really really bad. I mean, at a certain point, you have to hand it to them because you don’t get to sound this bad without trying really hard, so congrats I guess? But I don’t know, maybe next time, and hear me out, you try being deliberately good instead? Just a thought. PS - well done Johnny Cash for taking this album’s one good song and making it a hundred times better
If my dogs bark at it the whole time, it’s no good. In 2024, I can at least appreciate the mixing of these sounds, but I didn’t like it in 1994 when my brother(s) were listening to it, and I still don’t like it today. So so dark.
This album was edginess incarnate. While it brought some interesting ideas to the table, I don't think any of them were executed well at all. So many decisions come across as intentionally circumventing what's expected of music, forgetting that, in the end, this is still supposed to be music.
All the edgy kids in the 90's loved this. I hate those "this is just noise" comments but...this is just noise. Really sounds like it's trying too hard, moving into Sharon Tate's house to record, wtaf?
Oh boy, an album by the esteemed artist who scored "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem"! Look, I suppose if you can't make music that sounds good for normal people to enjoy then you can make loud, discordant noise for stupid, angry people to enjoy, and can make a lot of money that way because there are plenty of stupid angry people in the world who can often manage to scrounge together $15. But this is stupid noise and it sucks.
Nice sound. Didn’t understand a whole lot, but it was good background music
Yuck, no music, just noise
# 174 : Can't Listen, will not go back to this. Not my kind of sound. Too angry and noisy.
I would give it a zero if I could.
Not my thing. Hard to discern anything approaching music in this.
I liked Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt better than the original. The only other song I liked was A Warm Place, which stands in stark contrast to the rest of the album's industrial yelling
Non
Terrible. Mostly just shouty industrial metal noise. No discernable melodies.
Prefer Atari Teenage Riot
Repetitive and dull
Inte för mig
I listened to each song all the way though and I could not wait for each song to end. Such a hard listen... "Closer" and some parts of "Hurt" are not as bad as everything else. "The Downward Spiral" literally brought me distress. I really tried to find something to appreciate about this album but it made me feel so bad. The best part about The Downwo Spiral is that it eventually ends.
Don’t like
Aua
Empezamos con Mr Self Destruct, no pude con ella. Una cacofonia que tuve que parar. El grupo usa ruidos de fondo en sus canciones, que si bien es un hecho original no me termina de gustar. Las letras tampoco es que sean muy buenas o memorables. Definitivamente este grupo y el género no es para mí. La única que pude escuchar: A warm place. El resto, no me gustó nada.
I tried to make it through this album, but not my kind of music at all. :(
I can't find where you make comments at
This album is just unlistenable for me, it feels souless and grating in ways that I cannot tolerate much more than a song or two and then I regret hearing the lyrics. I like Ministry, Laibach and Unwound but this is just nothing I would ever listen to again.
I'm trying to keep an open mind throughout this project, so here's the most charitable version of my take: "The Downward Spiral" is not for me. Trent Reznor poured his hatred and his cruelty for capitalism, religion, and any living being with ears into this album. The nails in the band's name might as well be the ones on a chalkboard, which featured prominently during the 65 misanthropic minutes of its runtime. This album was mixed with utter contempt for audio normalization, forcing me to look up the lyrics later. None of those words are in the Bible. I can't imagine reaching a life state where these lyrics resonate with me, but—who knows—poetically, maybe there's something there. Sonically, it was akin to the Human Centipede being dragged into an industrial lathe at one of those dystopian cyberpunk raves from sci-fi movies. This album could have been a fitting OST for the gory shock websites of the 2000s. “A Warm Place” felt like a calming oasis of actual music in the desert of edgy screeching, and I’m not sure if the final track, "Hurt," really fit in the mix. The angst was there, but instrumentally, it felt like an afterthought. and props to Johnny Cash and Neil Cicierega for creating something enjoyable from this heap. "I Do Not Want This" was a standout track for summarizing my thoughts on the album in its entirety. I'm relieved that at least the author of this book liked the album. Nine Inch Nails, consider going to church. A wholly despicable and malicious piece of work.
This album is angst and nihilism incarnate. Maybe I’m just a normie, but I think music should be pleasant/enjoyable on some level. This was the music equivalent of modern art – it’s there to make you think or make a statement, but nobody would use it for their own enjoyment. The mixing/mastering was weird too. Tons of oversaturated guitar making the vocals totally drowned out (which I’m sure is on purpose). The most unpleasant sounds were the loudest in the mix. Closer and Reptile were interesting and had some fun electronic sounds, But I think I only liked them in comparison to the other stinkers. Hurt is actually a good song, but it can’t redeem that godawful album. By the end of I was annoyed that it was even included in the 1001.
Track 8 was actually very relatable, because I Do Not Want This. March of the Pigs was trying so hard to be a good song, but the singer and guitarist had to insert themselves. Hurt also became very relatable by the end
Hurt still fire
Not enjoyed. Appreciate the time and place but not my scene
Trash
Wow! Pretty scary stuff.
Vika biisi ok. Muuten meteliä
if horny metal spoons made music, that’s what this is.
Too much screaming
no thanks
Music for boring straight men, literally every song is the same, *yells into the microphone with a distortion effect*, did not every attempt to finish
Ouais bah rock industriel c'est le bon nom j'ai l'impression il a enregistré l'album à l'usine le boug Mais en vrai je comprends que des gens aiment mais perso c'est pas mon style
Pure shite!
Too experimental for me
Wat een gruwelijke herrie.
The first 5 seconds of the first song annoyed me so much I turned it off.
Really really bad Too much noise Video game music? Tony hawks pro skater Makes me feel like a Christian parent who thinks rock music is the devil because I hate it so much
Mostly mot my taste
Very much not for me. I am just not interested in deliberately unpleasant sounding music (even if I theoretically understand how it might be cathartic and emotional) and I found this a struggle to listen to. Every so often, in one of these songs, there'd be a tiny snatch of something actually melodic and interesting, which would get my hopes up, and then they'd immediately go back to screaming. However, because of this, A Warm Place, which I'm sure is a beautiful reprieve for anyone listening to the album, was actually borderline transcendent and completely unexpected to me, so that was really lovely.